To define medical supplies specifically, scientifically and holistically would take far too long at this point in time. The health services industry, in particular, is also quite broad and diverse and is not confined just to the hospital, the medical doctor’s surgery and downtown pharmacy. It goes well beyond that, ranging from natural plantations to large, multinational pharmaceutical companies that produce the best and most effective medicines known to humankind.

It also reaches deep and shallow mines and the large factories that are required to produce the precise measurements and exactness of surgical instruments and digitally powered diagnostic and operating equipment. Speaking of which, you can just as well include Silicon Valley as an important member of the health services industries. One very important member of this large fraternity that cannot be forgotten or excluded is that of the specialized medical packaging industries.

These much-required service providers are, by necessity, operating from different parts of the world. If it were not for these industries, much-needed medical supplies, medicines and surgical tools, would take a lot longer to reach patients in need and the medical staff required to nurse them back to health. Healthy living outcomes would also be a lot more challenging to achieve. These industries are informed by the most stringent testing procedures known to humankind.

Its significance is that important, so much so that governments across the world are mandated to intervene as is necessary. Men and women servicing the medical packaging processes and distributions are, by law, required to be properly and fully trained before being entrusted with the ingredients and tools required to help all men, women and children become well, stay healthy and live longer lives. And those who receive the goods are equally responsible.